Word: seymour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With IBM on a roll, some computer dealers worry about its growing market dominance. Companies like Apple and Compaq may be helped in the future by the eagerness of computer-store owners to have something to sell besides IBM products. Says Seymour Merrin, a Westport, Conn., dealer: "We cannot allow our futures to be totally controlled by an outside force like IBM. If you do, you become a slave, not a business." But if IBM continues to move forward at its present pace, dealers may have little choice. IBM controls 70% of the mainframe computer market, and the company...
...raised for a Mel King victory in Boston. Momentum at Harvard for King began last February at a Black Students' Association (BSA) conference during Malcolm X weekend. At the conference, a challenge was made to reawaken student social activism, especially in the Black community. Cynthia Silva, chairperson of the Seymour Society, explains that one theme that has been used at Harvard is the responsibility Black students have to the Black community. Students at Harvard have enormous class privileges. Black students at Harvard on the whole have these class privileges because the Black Community pulled together in the 1960s and fought...
...many students did listen to the call for social action, and a committee was formed at the conference to work with King and talk to student groups at B.U., Roxbury Community College, Northeastern, and other colleges. During the summer, the Seymour Society worked on voter registration in Boston, coordinating in activities with Operation Big Vote...
Walsh explained that the exhibition is connected with Literature and Arts B-22 "Rembrandt and His Contemporaries," a course taught by Professor Seymour Slive, organizer of the exhibition...
...that students should be "computer literate," and then argue among themselves about what that means. Berkeley Computer Educator Arthur Luehrmann, who coined the term, has defined it as "the ability to do computing and not merely to recognize, identify or be aware of alleged facts about computing." M.I.T. Professor Seymour Papert, author of the influential book Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas, agrees, insisting that all children should be taught to program computers, both for the intellectual exercise and for the experience of mastering a piece of modern technology...